Chris' Spring Clean 2025
The Victim and Dr Watson
I started The Victim with black trousers and a brown jacket, in an attempt to make him seem “workman like”, but it didn’t look right so I painted over the brown with black too, using the same Black Templar contrast paint as the trousers. To be honest this seems a little thick to be a contrast (maybe mine has dried out a bit), so it’s more like a traditional acrylic paint, so I highlighted with a little of the Vallejo Bonewhite again.
The skin, white shirt and handkerchief, use the same colours as Sherlock. His hair is some Vallejo leather brown with a little Vallejo Sun Yellow mixed in. The blood on his shirt is a dab of Blood Red Speed Paint.
Dr Watson also uses the same skin tones and white for his shirt mentioned before. His suit is Pro Acryl Red Grey (a lovely colour that I try to use as often as possible), highlights again were Bonewhite mixed in. Elbow pads are the leather brown used for the victims hair as it was still on my wet palette. For his tie, I decided he was a member of the MCC, so Sun Yellow then some Vallejo Bloody Red stripes.
He’s holding a parchment that’s Pallid Bone Speed paint, his magnifying glass frame is an attempt at non metallic metal using Vallejo Stonewall Grey with Pro Acryl Bold Titanium white gradually mixed in. Some of this grey is also used on his hair. The lens started white and I wet blended some Vallejo Ultramarine Blue to attempt to suggest glass. A couple of dots of white to add a reflection.
































